We have a number of HP printers (4200, 4250, 4350, 4015x) that have recently all had the same issue. A user will attempt to print to the unit and the job will come out on hundreds of pages with only a couple of characters on each page.

To make things even more confusing, not all users are affected and not all printers are affected.

We had this problem with Kyocera TK-3050i when users printed Exel spreadsheets. Random users were effected. I guess your printers are on print server? What is server OS? Have you same issue if try to print directly to the printer (sending document to printers IP, not via print server)? We solved the problem with updating newest printer drivers on the print server.

I would DEFINITLY make a clean-up on the server .... remove printqueues, remove drivers (print server properties), make sure drivers actually were removed from %systemroot%\system32\drivers\3\ (remember to identify HP files)...

Then setup queues (if printserver are 2012) make sure it uses 'standard TCP/IP' and not this 'silly' WSD-protecol and use latest driver from HP.

Use PCL6 unless you have a VERY specific and well defined reason for using PCL5.

Remove the drivers from the affected server/machines and reinstall the drivers from the manufacturer. The HP universal driver is a good fit for these printers, as are the drivers that are included with windows.

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